'Vanguards of Conquest' definitions:

noun

An Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells; "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981" [syn: al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest]